Re: [PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod] ref can return false on references

Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> writes:

> >>    $ perl -wle 'print ref bless [] => 0'
> >>    0
> >
> > I would be tempted to make that bless illegal.
> 
> I dont see why we should treat that specially. People can always bless
> into a package which has overload and have that return false.

I don't think you are able to overload on the class name.  The HvNAME
is just a char*.

Regards,
Gisle

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